One policy goal of many developing countries is to decentralize public sector decision making so as to "bring it closer to the people." While discussions of dec
This book draws on experiences in developing countries to bridge the gap between the conventional textbook treatment of fiscal decentralization and the actual p
This book focuses on the financing of formal primary and secondary education in developing nations. The study does not consider the areas of pre-primary, post-s
Presents original research on the structure of intergovernmental fiscal relations in developing, transition, and industrialized countries and on the design and
This highly original book analyzes political decentralization and fiscal federalism in Canada and Germany, both traditional federal countries, and in Spain, a u
